They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
ENID BLYTONWriting for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
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To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.
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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
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Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
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They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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